Other Slices

by Slice The Cake

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released 21 December 2012
Orchestrated by:
Gareth Edwards - Tumorous Vocal Growths, Ambiences
Jonas Johansson - String'd Observations, Singing
Jack 'Magero' Richardson - Manifestations, Beards

Guests:
Jake Lowe - Compositional aid on Nebulayer Cake, Kow Otani and The Siren's Song. Solo on Kow Otani.
Kieran Scoble - Swamp Noises, Vocal Session Engineering
Laure Whiteside - Vocals on Fractal Exam Sequence
Harry Wade- AARRRGHH
Penwith College Collective - Reptilian Exaltations

Special Thanks:

Gareth thanks: My Mother for her continuous and unwavering support and understanding of all things I do, Kieran for all of his assistance with recording the vocals for this release, Jaime for bestowing upon us a huge opportunity for growth and expansion, Jonas and Jack for being incredible friends and musicians, and to all my friends and family, I love you all. I couldn't do any of this without you. Without your love and the bonds that we share, I would not have the inspiration to say what I say through this project. Thank you so much, I love you all <3

Magero thanks: My parents Michael and Donna for supporting me in my endeavours more than anyone else, my brothers Jonas & Gareth for constantly making me want to push myself further and making this music a reality, Marshall Watson for being the best bro physically possible, Jake Lowe for bringing in a fresh set of ears and riffs on this release, Jaime Gamble for taking a chance on us and giving us the opportunity to expand our operation far quicker than we expected, every single one of you who has supported Slice the Cake throughout the years, and pretty much anyone else who feels they deserve thanking. You're all awesome and I love you.

Jonas thanks: First off I would like to send out many thanks to my family for supporting me through all times. Big thanks to Philip-Emanuel for being a reliable mix observer, bless ya. Mattias and Micke for being exceptional buddies, you know you all deserve it. Big thanks to Coffe for being the best local around. And many blessings to Gareth and Jack for being the most extraordinary musicians to be working with, as well as being damn fine bros. And Dante, for being my dog.

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Track Name: Blow Up Voodoo Doll
~Instrumental~
Track Name: False Illumination
From whence you came shall you return
From the flames from which you were born.
The deception in your rotten hearts
Dooming the young to mental castration.

Led like sheep through a series of malignant trials and tests,
Leaving the meek amongst the flock to rot.
Fed with sanitised gruel 'til they can sense nothing but your stagnation.

And still there's no refuge, the cogs keep on turning,
Nothing to halt the march of this cancerous machine,
Save for you and me.

Our love is not enough to change the world
Or destroy the tumor at its source.

Throwing caution to the wind,
Poisoning all that's sacred,
Feasting on the souls of the young,
You pray on the weak with false illumination.

Mis-diagnosis with nebulous sicknesses
Serves to leave our ruined minds in fits of hypochondria .
How can we grow? How can we see?
How can we find a truth that's relevant with misdirection prevelant in all there is?

With these constraints we're nothing more than slaves.
Bound and gagged and beat 'til we submit.
The burden lays on us to collectively be the change we want to see.

Throwing caution to the wind,
Poisoning all that's sacred,
Feasting on the souls of the young,
You pray on the weak with false illumination.

At the expense of intuition
You loose the dogs of war.
They bay for blood.

So I pray for the flood.
Track Name: Nebulayer Cake
The apex approaches,
A fleeting zenith of our collective creation.
Time goes unnoticed
As if like sand through our toes, each grain containing years.

And still we tread onwards,
Blissfully unaware of our temporal codification.

Our paradoxical nature unfurls
Revealing a map of the stars.
Together we can reconcile and create a triumvirate;
Our manifestations reaching to heaven.

A nebulous plane, time is no longer of essence.

Synchronistic movements behind the scenes
Urge us to weave a greater tapestry.
We sow the seeds of our very creation,
Growing brighter and stronger as they feed.

Our seeds they sprout into trees,
Our branches ancient and ageless.
Our leaves, they feed on our energy
And in return, we feed on them.

And still we tread onwards,
Blissfully unaware of our temporal codification.

As one, we grow.
As one, we bloom.
In this nebulayer cake.
Track Name: The Siren's Song
A schism appears
My identity fragments, leaving glimpses
In its wake of who I could've been and might yet be
Through the grey I see myself illuminate

I see a Siren in my dreams
She sings to me, her voice angelic
She brings to me glimpses of perfection
A previous life, idealised lies?
It's all the same to me.

And when all is said and done
Her voice still echoes in my ears
A ringing sound I cannot bury

Yet I feel torn by her ever present guiding hands
Do I reject this world and substitute my hatred for her love?

This schism it heals
A state of unity approaches
I yearn for transcendence
She shows me the door but I lack the key

She tells me stories
She tells me tales
She sings me songs of love
and songs of loss

She draws me to the water
And I wade in
Content to let the ocean
Take me where it will

I gaze upon her spirit
I see a face
It took all this time to realise
This face is mine
Track Name: Fractal Exam Sequence
When you said you were lost
I couldn't help but feel
Like I had to find you

And rescue you
From the shadows that took you,
Lest you be consumed.

I don't need to be found,
These shadows are my blanket.
I'm wrapped up safe and sound.

I don't need your love
To guide my way home.
I'll be fine on my own.

This is not the way.
We can use our love to heal us both
I promise, I promise.

This is not the way.
We could have bliss if we wanted
If not for being foolish.

We could use our love to heal us both
I promise, I promise.

Why won't you let me in?
Your gaze leaves me cold,
I want to feel your warmth.

I'll hold you at arms length
As long as I need to,
'til I'm left well alone.

Why do you hide away?
Away from all that could be,
Away from all that is?

I'm not fit to love,
I'll only go and drag you down
Into the shadows where I lay.

This is not the way.
We can use our love to heal us both
I promise, I promise.

This is not the way.
We could have bliss if we wanted
If not for being foolish

We could use our love to heal us both
I promise, I promise.

Let me go,
Let me go,
Let me go,
I'm learning how to love.

Why won't you listen to me?
We could pass this fractal exam.
Why won't you listen to me?
We could bloom together.

Why won't you listen?
Track Name: A Dance With Dragons
Ensconced in this dangerous game
In which we play our roles so rapturously,
Breathing flame upon the underlings
Lest they let fly their voices of dissent,
We shall stomp down with vigor this civil unrest.

And we shall tear
And we shall gnaw at them
And we shall breathe smoke
'Til there's nothing left but ashes.

Who do they think they are? A voice of reason in the dark?
Their treasonous words poison and burn everything they touch.
Through their dominance they destroy our world
Castrate our futures and subjugate our homes

We shall indulge no more
In this dance with dragons

They know not what they do.
They'd live in piss and shit if it weren't for us, it's true.
Yet they have the gall to question our reign.
They need our guiding light to save them from themselves.

We shall indulge no more
In this dance with dragons

With fire and water we find the balance.

So we await the flood.
So we await the flames.
We take peace in our duality, embrace our fall from grace
So we can rise again together like a phoenix from the ashes,
Eternally in balance and beauty.

We shall indulge forever
In this dance with dragons.
Track Name: 4th Dimensional Observation
Space-time contorts and degenerates,
Cosmic fabric unwoven.
Perception of time disappears,
Dripping through my fingers into effervescent territories

They gaze at me through slitted eyes,
Hooded flesh, shadowed scales.
All hail our reptilian overlords
For they are here!!!

Chosen by the lizards
For ascension.
You will never leave
This state of 4th dimensional observation.

It's begun!
Transdimensional ascendance
Into 4th dimensional observation.

You will never leave!
Track Name: Cleansed
I toe the line between the innocent and the guilty,
This path of the everyman.

I am society's backbone in times of need,
In times of hunger, in times of caution.
For something more than fortune and fame, I seek enlightenment
I denounce myself.

I am the blue collar worker,
Nine to five, satisfied with all his worth.
I am the arrogant fuck, staring down at his empire,
It's never enough

To bring us back to step one, erase everything down to zero
Level off the playing field.

It may be seen as anarchy by some, but this discomfort is your freedom
It's your freedom.

I am Caesar and you are my slaves.
I am normality infected.
I seek to be the plague,
Infecting innocent cells with my impurities and sins.

To be truly free, to be truly right
To be truly pure, we must be reborn.
To be truly wrong, to be truly cursed
To be too far gone we must bring forth the the storm.

We must.
Track Name: Genghis Tron, Come Home, We Miss You!
~Instrumental~
Track Name: The Great Migration
~Instrumental~